[mythtv-users] Frontend locking up and unable to kill it.

[Allen Edwards]

Twice now the frontend has frozen. If that were not bad enough, I am unable
to kill it. I have remotely tried to kill it and what I find is a status
message on the main screen saying the program has become unresponsive and
do I want to shut it down.  But with no visible cursor I cannot click on
"Yes" and it does not respond to "Y" from the keyboard. I did a "sudo
shutdown now -r" from the remote and the link was immediately cut but the
myth computer did not shut down. It is as if mythfrontend was blocking all
attempts to close it. I finally held the power button down long enough to
turn the computer off and when I restarted it, all was fine. There is just
a short section in the frontend log between when my wife started watching
her show and the freeze. No log entries after the freeze until the restart.

Jul  3 07:33:33 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: I
CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2532 (HandleStateChange) TV::HandleStateChange():
Changing from None to WatchingRecording
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: I
CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2638 (HandleStateChange) TV::HandleStateChange():
Main UI disabled.
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: I
CoreContext tv_play.cpp:424 (StartTV) TV::StartTV(): Entering main playback
loop.
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: N
CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2231 (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(f): Waited
101ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: N
CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2231 (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(f): Waited
203ms for video buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: N
CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2231 (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(f): Waited
305ms for video buffers LAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: I
CoreContext mythrender_vdpau.cpp:615 (CheckOutputSurfaces) VDPAU: Added 2
output surfaces (total 4, max 4)
Jul  3 07:33:34 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: N
CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2231 (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(f): Waited
102ms for video buffers dLAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jul  3 07:35:29 NewMyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1555]: E Decoder
mythplayer.cpp:3504 (DecoderGetFrame) Player(f): Decoder timed out waiting
for free video buffers.

Nothing here that means anything to me that tells me what happened or what
to do.

Ideally someone can help figure out what is causing the freezes but short
of that, how can I shutdown the system?

 What I tried:
sudo kill 1555
sudo kill -9 1555
 sudo killall  mythfrontend.re
 sudo shutdown now -r

Nothing  above would kill the frontend.

Allen
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